While the public's attention seems to be swinging toward Windows 7 (the next iteration of the OS)—a topic I'll address in the weeks ahead—the fact of the matter is that Vista remains. ... (more)

Darl McBride entered a courtroom to assert his rights regarding legacy System V code, which he still contends exists within Linux. This despite years of discovery turning up zero evidence ... (more)

A new research paper takes a look at how a common high-performance computing benchmark performs on a number of multicore, multisocket platforms, including Intel's Clovertown, AMD's ... (more)

As the school year winds down, the RIAA is sending out a flood of copyright infringement notifications to schools. The group says its business as usual, but campus IT workers tell Ars ... (more)

Retail sales of PC games aren't what they used to be, although the indie game market and online gaming is still going strong. The reason for this, many in the industry seem to think, ... (more)

Microsoft's board met Wednesday to discuss its stand-off with Yahoo over its $41.8 billion takeover bid, but failed to reach a decision on what to do next, according to a Wall Street ... (more)

According to analysts Screen Digest, advertising will account for more than 20 percent of all mobile TV revenues on a worldwide basis by 2012. So get ready for the ad-funded games, ... (more)

Creative becomes the second company behind Seagate to settle with consumers over exaggerated drive capacity. Creative was accused of misrepresenting the number of files and hours ... (more)

Passion for music is higher than ever but "distribution sucks," Quincy Jones said Tuesday during a Milken Institute Global Conference where a discussion on the sorry state of the music ... (more)

Nokia has defended its decision to offer unlimited music downloads to phone buyers, arguing that it will not come at the expense of profits. Reports have suggested Nokia is paying ... (more)

A federal district court in New York ruled Wednesday that the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is owed "reasonable license fees" by online media powerhouses AOL, ... (more)

New movie releases from a number of major and independent studios will be available on iTunes the same day they're offered on DVD, Apple announced Thursday. Starting this week, iTunes ... (more)

Yesterday’s refresh of the iMac line is interesting, not because of the bump in speed that the refresh itself offers but because of the direction that Apple is going in. Is Apple ... (more)

The BitTorrent popularity explosion is still underway, with some torrent sites now amongst the most visited sites, anywhere on the web. One of those, Mininova, now gets well over half ... (more)

April appears to be shaping up as National Slag Lawrence Lessig Month. Last week, there was RedState's ill-starred effort to turn the Stanford legal scholar (and Barack Obama supporter) ... (more)

Thirty-seven years ago, Leon Chua, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, mathematically theorized that scientific symmetry demands that there should be a fourth fundamental ... (more)

LONDON -- They turned the music sales model on its head, but indie rockers Radiohead won't be repeating their decision to let fans choose what to pay for their downloads, frontman Thom ... (more)

A congressional proposal designed to stiffen penalties and enforcement against pirates and counterfeiters moved a step closer to becoming law on Wednesday. As expected, the U.S. ... (more)

Add AT&T to the list of wireless providers who are trying to figure out a way to cash in on the digital music boom. The company has enlisted the help of search advertising and marketing ... (more)

You've bought the high definition TV, mounted it on the wall, decked it out with tweeters and subwoofers, and have now turned your attention to the gleaming new Blu-ray players beckoning ... (more)

An artist featured in a new campaign pushed by the Australian music industry to discourage illegal file sharing and change the public's perception that musicians live like royalty says ... (more)

Apple is often lauded for its design chops. And Apple’s post-modern industrial design is lyrical next to Dell’s neo-Soviet brutalism. But Apple makes some really stupid choices. ... (more)

Techdirt’s Mike Masnick is usually pretty reliable, but he completely blew it today, hitting the publish button on one of the sloppiest, most inflammatory stories I’ve seen in a ... (more)

The New York Times is working on a story saying open source programming makes you a criminal. Matt Richtel (right) called for an interview soon after learning that a jury had convicted ... (more)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt likely surprised few by confirming Wednesday that his company's video-sharing powerhouse YouTube isn't quite throwing off lots of cash. It was obvious from ... (more)

Executives at Electronic Arts have to be kicking themselves right about now. It appears that Take-Two Interactive, the video game publisher EA has been trying to buy for the last ... (more)

It looks like Mark Hamburg, an Adobe Systems Photoshop and Lightroom programming guru, will be leading work to give Microsoft Windows a better user interface. And given the dramatic ... (more)

Woodbury, Conn., man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for operating Web sites where users could download unauthorized copies of movies, music and software titles, according ... (more)

Since 1999, the title of most expensive game ever made has belonged to Shenmue, an action-adventure game for the Sega Dreamcast, which cost over $70 million to create. Now, according ... (more)

Instructions found online on how to kill oneself by extracting hydrogen sulphide out of bath salts are responsible for close to 50 suicide attempts in Japan over the last month. The ... (more)